Bug 159304 - writer on mac ventura rendering of text freezes and gets distorted on scrolling up or down
Summary: writer on mac ventura rendering of text freezes and gets distorted on scrolli...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155266
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.9.2 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
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Reported: 2024-01-20 20:20 UTC by dev
Modified: 2024-01-20 22:48 UTC (History)
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Description dev 2024-01-20 20:20:27 UTC
Description:
When opening a word document DOCX, and scrolling down, the page hangs and does not render the document correctly on 7.5.9 and 7.6.4. I went back to my old version of 7.5.2.2 and the document displayed correctly and scrolled with no problems.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install 7.5.9.2 on a macbook pro with ventura 13.6.3
2.Open or create a multipage text document with libreoffice writer 
3.try using the gesture of two fingers to scroll up or down the page

Actual Results:
the page freezes for a while and distorts the document, i have to minimize and maximize the document to see it correctly again

Expected Results:
the page should scroll up or down smoothly


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
this is the version that works I don't have 7.5.9.2 any more to post it.

Version: 7.5.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 53bb9681a964705cf672590721dbc85eb4d0c3a2
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.6.3; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Telesto 2024-01-20 22:11:54 UTC
7.6.4 and 7.5.9 are known to be buggy :-( It will be resolved with 7.6.5

For the time being. You can move backwards
*https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/7.5.8.2/mac/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.5.8.2_MacOS_x86-64.dmg
* https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/7.6.3.2/mac/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.6.3.2_MacOS_x86-64.dmg

Or forwards with daily build of the upcoming 7.6.5 release:
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/libreoffice-7-6/MacOSX-x86_64@tb92-TDF/current/LibreOfficeDev_7.6.5.0.0_MacOS_x86-64.dmg

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If you would like to avoid reverting to an old version or running a daily build, a tester has found a workaround for LibreOffice 7.5.9 and 7.6.4 that hopefully works while waiting for LibreOffice 7.6.5 to be released in February 2024: switch to Skia/Metal rendering.

To enable Skia/Metal rendering, do the following steps:

1. Open the Options dialog by selecting the LibreOffice > Preferences menu
2. Select LibreOffice > View in the left panel
3. In the right panel, check the "Use Skia for all rendering" and uncheck "Force Skia software rendering" checkboxes as shown in the following screen snapshot:
     https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=191409
4. Press the "OK" button and restart if prompted
Comment 2 Telesto 2024-01-20 22:12:34 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155266 ***
Comment 3 steve 2024-01-20 22:48:01 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)